Dinesh Search for "california fires march 16th": https://kagi.com/search?q=california+fires+march+16th The top result and the first page are littered with clones of identical AI slop: https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/fires/article302201534.html https://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/california/fires/article302170249.html https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/california/fires/article302186009.html https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/fires/article301583194.html https://www.modbee.com/news/california/fires/article302173169.html This AI content farm and its alternate domains should not be ranked highly at all. (Please let me know if this is the wrong avenue to report AI slop / poor search results.)
nobodywasishere These websites appear to all be owned by Chatham Asset Management, which acquired them over time (some of them in 2020). They seem to be reposting content between each other, potentially as a way to game SEO and make each individual website have more content. I don't believe these are AI-generated though, digging into it the people who write articles on these sites do appear to exist (and have Linkedin profiles and the like). There is a map with all their sites here: https://www.bellinghamherald.com/ https://www.theolympian.com/ https://www.thenewstribune.com/ https://www.tri-cityherald.com/ https://www.idahostatesman.com/ https://www.sacbee.com/ https://www.modbee.com/ https://www.mercedsunstar.com/ https://www.fresnobee.com/ https://www.sanluisobispo.com/ https://www.kansas.com/ https://www.kansascity.com/ https://www.star-telegram.com/ https://www.bnd.com/ https://www.sunherald.com/ https://www.kentucky.com/ https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/ https://www.macon.com/ https://www.bradenton.com/ https://www.miamiherald.com/ https://www.elnuevoherald.com/ https://www.centredaily.com/ https://www.mcclatchydc.com/ https://www.heraldsun.com/ https://www.newsobserver.com/ https://www.charlotteobserver.com/ https://www.heraldonline.com/ https://www.thestate.com/ https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/ https://www.islandpacket.com/ Few options on how we could handle this: Downrank everything except the first website (so it still shows up, but doesn't overwhelm results) De-duplicate results between these somehow / collapsing them together as if they were from the same domain Open to suggestions
